Archives

Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B) announced today that 57% of the employees at its Elkview operation in southeastern B.C. voted to reject a five-year collective agreement.

Vancouver has emerged as the clear leader in the WWF Canada’s Earth Hour List , which ranks Canadian cities according to their record on battling climate change.

B.C.’s January overnight visitors from Australia jumped 22.6%, from the Asia-Pacific, 11%, and from the United States, 3.2%, year over year, according to Statistics Canada.

New premier Christy Clark joined German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz downtown Thursday to announce plans for a new fuel cell production facility in Burnaby. The $50 million plant will develop and build fuel cell stacks to power electric vehicles.

Natural gas giant Encana (TSX:ECA) has signed a deal to take a 30% stake in the proposed Kitimat liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal.

Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) has become the first major Hollywood studio to partner with Groupon to advertise its new movie, The Lincoln Lawyer , Lionsgate has announced.

Nearly a year after the wind was knocked out of NaiKun’s (TSX-V:NKW) sails, the company is continuing to move forward on what could be Canada’s first offshore wind farm.

Pitt Meadows-based Tranzeo Wireless Technologies, Inc. (TSX:TZT) has signed its second deal with an Indian communications provider.

Word that troubled upscale steakhouse chain Morton’s Restaurant Group Inc. (NYSE:MRT) is up for sale spurred shares to soar 12% March 16. But buying the fabled 33-year-old company that generated US$296.

B.C.’s minimum wage hike risks harming struggling parts of the province, BC Chamber of Commerce president and CEO John Winter said.